Question: Which LB would you take?

M-TownTider · July 27th, 2009, 09:07 PM

This one's for all of the recruiting gurus here at Tidefans. It's signing day and you have to sign a LB. You have 2 choices: L. Owens, and C. Mosely. Who do you pick and why?

Airborne Tider · July 27th, 2009, 10:48 PM

Moseley. More polished and complete LB. More experienced and more prepared for the college game. Owens is a player no doubt but will need more coaching up as a LB.

Bhammer · July 27th, 2009, 11:35 PM

	Quote:	Airborne Tider
	Moseley. More polished and complete LB. More experienced and more prepared for the college game. Owens is a player no doubt but will need more coaching up as a LB.

Plus, from everything I've read, Mosley is very pro-Bama. That has to count for something.

glasscutter256 · July 27th, 2009, 11:59 PM

I like CJ Mosely too. I think he has more speed and pursues the ball like a heat sinking missile. Sabans defense is built on speed.

wileybb22 · July 28th, 2009, 12:07 AM

CJ. A tackling machine and he's from the Mobile area. Keep the boys from Mobile and the pipe line going to the Tide....

crimson_blood · July 28th, 2009, 12:11 AM

CJM

Big-R · July 28th, 2009, 03:47 AM

Owens. Our linebacker corps is fine. Just to keep the barn from getting him.
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CapstoneGrad06 · July 28th, 2009, 03:58 AM

I would take C.J. Mosley, as he seems to be the more polished of the two, and he's from Mobile. LaDarius Owens is no slouch, but I just like C.J. a little more. I would love to have them both, but I'm not 100% convinced that LaDarius will turn off the pleas from Auburn about his ties there, and sign with Alabama.

Bamaball2001 · July 28th, 2009, 07:06 AM

C.J. Mosley, he talks about Bama like he wants to be here and I want players that want to be here.

Roll Tide

BamaFossil · July 28th, 2009, 07:13 AM

I don't play the "pick one" game with them. I take 'em both if they'll come. Then I ask Coach Saban to reach into his jar of pixie dust and make the numbers work out.

bigmammal · July 28th, 2009, 11:43 AM

It may never be clear which is really the best player.

Friends who have seen Owens play really like him. He may be the more versatile of the two. As gurus here have said, Moseley may be more fundamentally sound.

Granted it is difficult to pin down which of our newest LBs will play where, but if Hightower does switch, our depth at ILB two years out could be a little shaky.

I like it that Moseley has said academics and campus life are important to him.

Also like it that he hasn't let his recruitment become a Barn one day, Bama the next day affair.

I honestly don't know anyone who has personally eyeballed both, but tidejuice's statement: ("but ive seen mosely, hes like a shining light of greatness"), tips the scales for me.

bonehouse81 · July 28th, 2009, 01:33 PM

I think Owens has a little more speed, may have a little better frame, and may have a higher ceiling, but Mosley is more of a sure thing as a LB.

I guess it kind of depends on what you value more -- upside(Owens) or game-readiness (Mosley).

With that said, Bama's LB situation is such that it could definitely afford to take the guy who may need more coaching.

If I had to choose, I'd take Owens. I don't think his physical tools are dramatically better than Mosley's though.

LCN · July 28th, 2009, 07:52 PM

Both would be nice

Mary Ann or Ginger ?